Surviving Hell - Woman Recounts Mengele Twin Experiments During Holocaust

Eva Kor and her twin sister Miriam were part of a small number of children who survived the Holocaust and vicious experiements by Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele.

Mengele used roughly 1500 sets of twins as human guinea pigs in genetic experiments When the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz in January 1945, roughly 200 children were found alive. Eva and were two of them.

Kor - who is billed as a forgiveness advocate - will recount her experiences as a Holocaust survivor at the Ocean County Library at 7 p.m. on Oct. 2

She wrote “ Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz”

Eva was born in 1934 in the tiny village of Portz, Romania. Her family lived under the spectre of the Nazi takeover of Germany and the everyday experience of prejudice against the Jews. In 1944, her family was packed into a cattle car and transported to the Auschwitz death camp.

After 70 hours without food or water, Eva and her family emerged onto the selection platform at Auschwitz. She soon realized her father and two older sisters were gone. She never saw them again. Soon after, Eva and Miriam were forcibly taken from their mother, whom they also never saw again.

Eva went on to live in Israel, studied agriculture and attained the rank of Sergeant Major in the Israeli Army Engineering Corps. She eventually married and had two children. She later became a United States citizen

In 1984, Eva founded CANDLES (Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors). The group runs the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Terre Haute, Indiana, and helps provide Holocaust educational materials to schools.

Registration is required. To register, go online at www.theoceancountylibrary.org or call 732-349-6200.